My husband's aunt still lives in Flint. She has a nice little house that is paid for and a good retirement from GM. All the memories of her husband and raising her children are in that house. She will never leave. She expressed to me how devastating it was when the plants closed down and all the booming businesses that survived from the employees from the plants went under. When the economy got so bad and crime rose so high, people started abandoning their homes and the city. It's heartbreaking for her to watch it deteriorate but she still loves it because it's home.

Just imagine what some of these areas looked like when they were first built. Wish we could turn back the clock to see the smiling faces as the families moved into their new homes. Those were the good old days.

I am 56 yrs old and from Flint... lived here for most of my life. It isn't really as bad as everyone says, except for the bad water situation and blight. I live right on Fenton rd just down the street from where you're driving... Most of the crime is drug deals gone bad, or related to prostitution deals gone bad, and if you're not involved in that stuff you really have no worries. Flint has a great cultural center, U of M Flint, the best planetarium ever, and really cool museums, a great farmers market , Bluebell beach, Crossroads Village, and Huckleberry Railroad. There is also Applewood Estates, which is a great place to visit on a nice sunny day, especially if you have younger kids that need to get outdoors to burn off some energy... they set up all sorts of outside games and activities for the kids and it is a really clean and safe environment for them to play outdoors, and it is free... plus during Christmas and Halloween they have great events going on there! That Dort Mall you drove past and mentioned is really cool... it was built by a guy in his late 70's and his buddies many years ago and was meant to be a place for families to visit and see all the amazing artifacts and nostalgic memorabilia from years past... it has so many cool antiques and things from all over the world there and even though it looks run down it is definately worth visiting! The downtown area and U of M Flint campus is absolutely beautiful, too! The old hotel with all the artwork that you mentioned is often used as a backdrop for photo shoots and the artwork is changed often. That critter wasn't a beaver, it was a groundhog. We have lots of them...and downtown is really pretty nice and quite safe. I have never felt like I was in danger or anything, and I love it here. A lot of the problems are because the city is poorly run by the government at the local level. This is fun watching... you drove right past my house...lol! Also, right down the street from the Machine Shop, which you drove past is an excellent haunted house every year during Halloween season and the theater you went by downtown is said to be haunted and is featured in several shows that are about paranormal investigation and ghost hunting... Lansing is far worse as far as being dangerous... it is where I went to college and even though it looks better on the surface, that is where you'd better watch your back! Most ly, Flint is really a friendly and down to earth place. It is sad that although the good far outweighs the bad, everyone always wants to focus on the bad, so I thought I would provide this info to shed light on things and also to provide lots of good options for those visiting here and fun things to do here... It's time to focus on all the good that Flint really does have to offer because where the thought goes, the energy flows!

i am 70 years old and was born and raised in flint. as were my parents and grand parents. you did a decent job with your comments. flint was a good place to grow up and the suburbs are still good places to live.

It's so funny you asked about us looking up this house for sale. They're asking $52.000. I love your videos and am in the habit of looking up homes in every city you tour. I find it interesting watching your videos and looking up homes for sale all over the U.S. at the same time. Thank you for all your travels and sharing them with us. God bless 💗

Back in 1982 to 1983, at the height of the decline of Flint, the State of Michigan started the 'Flint Restoration Funding Program' where they offered either very low or zero % loans to Non-Residents to purchase property as long as the buyer occupied the house for at least 3 years. I purchased an entire block in the worst part of town for about $28k with a 0 interest 30 year loan. I cleared the entire block and built a 6800 sq. ft. residence with a 3-car detached Garage and Workshop, In-ground Pool, Regulation Tennis and Basketball Court, and an English Garden . Of course I had to install an 8' Fence around the entire perimeter of the property and had the best Security System that the 1980's had to offer. I lived there for the required 3 years and then sold the property to an anonymous buyer for just under 11 million. I had a total of just over $800k in the project. It is still occupied by the same buyer and is known in the community as 'The Big House'.

Thanks for your visit. The suburbs of Flint offer some amazing places to live, with vibrant neighborhoods, and excellent schools. Recovery for Flint is slow, but offers some excellent ground floor opportunities for creative business types. I moved my family here from the Big Thicket of Texas in 2000 to make money in the automotive industry. These opportunities have given us prosperity and happiness. God bless Flint, and God bless America !!

I am a Flint native. I moved away with my family many years ago. Parts of my family still lived in the area until the last few years. I remember Flint as being a vibrant and happening place in the late 1960's and early 70's. Then the UAW and GM decided to get in a pissing match. GM closed most of their plants there. The city went into decline. That led to the city being bankrupt. That led to the lead poisoning of the homes there. It's so depressing to go there now. It breaks my heart to see it. I knew Flint when it was at it's peak. Now, it's just gone. I went to restaurant there recently, the waitress told me she wanted to leave Flint to raise her child, but she couldn't affort to move out. That's where Flint is these days.

I'm an hour from Flint. Was called last month from the animal shelter in Flint to see if i would rescue a Min Pin. I named him Flint, he's my foster dog and the most loving 2yo Min pin I've fostered in awhile!

Thanks for slowing down and not running over my sister’s cat on Lincoln. P.S. that cat totally knows where the street sign is…

I was born in Hurley Hospital in Flint 71 years ago. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins all over Flint. I think I just have one relative left there. My parents moved from Flint to Seattle when I was 3. But we always went back to visit. You drove right past my aunt’s house just off Fenton on Barrie. I do remember visiting my cousins there when it was a sparkling little neighborhood. My aunt lived there until her 90’s and left less than 10 years ago before she passed. It was in very bad shape by then. Good memories of get-togethers there, and other family homes that were throughout Flint. It was a different world.

Thank you for doing so much research for your trips! I also appreciate that you give street names and locations. Because you do so it sets your videos apart from those who merely drive around. I really enjoy what your channel has become over time! (Yes, I found your videos long ago.)

Having lived in Flint for the past seven years, I appreciate this very fair assessment. It’s a very interesting city; yes, there are definitely areas where you really need to be cautious, but it’s balanced, in my opinion, by a rich history and some solid culture. There’s a thriving artist community here, great museums, a lovely and very safe downtown (as you pointed out), and some great neighborhoods. It’s for sure not a boring place!

Those buildings didn't "catch" on fire. Those buildings were set on fire, not for insurance money or anything like that. The buildings are abandon and sit empty for years and used by squatters, critters and drug crash pads. Sometimes they are set ablaze just because. Sometimes the neighborhood (what's left of it) gets tired of the blight after years of asking the city to tear down these structures and sets it on fire. To the city's defense there are so many abandon properties they literally do not have the resources to raze all the structures. Oh the schools. Once the hub of neighborhoods, Flint Community Schools was a model for education with many out-of-state educators coming to Flint to experience the Community School concept. That is hard to believe today. Once a neighborhood loses its elementary school the neighborhood quickly deteriorates. I saw it happen over and over again. It was like the school was the center and heartbeat of the neighborhood and when lost the neighborhood just gave up. In the 80's there were 27 elementary schools in Flint. Today, there at my last count a few years ago, 4. The newest school in the district was built in the early 60's. A couple of them were erected almost 100 years ago. In the 1980's Flint Community Schools had the highest teacher salary in Genesee County. Now they are the lowest paying district in the county. The North end is probably the worst part of town. There were streets up there that even if the light was red, I would slow down, scan my environment and if no cars coming keep going. It was not a good idea to stop unless absolutely necessary. The East side has taken a real hit because there was a lot of industry over there and it is all gone now and so the neighborhoods declined with it. You did a good job showing Flint in short video. About the only thing I would advised you to hone in on would have been some of the sites where there once stood sprawling auto factories employing thousands almost all gone. The truck and bus plant is still there but not much else. There were so many factories making parts and assembling vehicles. One of the largest was Buick City that was several blocks long. Raw material came in one end and a new Buick came out the other. It was really something in its day. Flint was also the place where the UAW started at a facility just south of Kettering University and on the river called Chevy in the Hole. There is a little memorial on the location of the sit down strike that ushed in the union. That would have been a good thing to get on camera. Overall I think you captured the essence of Flint in the short time you had. I am glad you did mostly a car tour and only got out of your car when downtown. Good choice.

I live on the suburbs of Flint. I think you captured it well. I hope that brighter days are ahead because the county needs a healthy and thriving Flint.

I appreciated this video so much. I was born and raised in Flint but I moved away in 2011. I went back to visit once back in 2012 and I haven’t been back since. I still have friends and family that live there but I just haven’t felt the desire to actually go back. It is nice to watch this video and see some of the places I haven’t seen in years and also to see some of the things that wasn’t there before I left

OZ// Thanks Joey, LOVE what you do- I look for your vids with great anticipation. You are a 'relief' from most YT vids, which are filled with angst. Dont change a thing !! - "Dont fix something that aint broken", eh? cheers from Sth Australia.

Grew up in Saginaw and lived late teens in Detroit so I visited Flint often and have friends there. I played the Machine Shop a few times, it has become a Flint icon and a great venue. As is the Big Johns Steak and Onion next door and the original and greatest hockey store ever across the road in Dort Mall. If you play hockey, imagine a hockey store the size of a grocery store, that's what Bob Peranis Hockey World was (hopefully still is). Also iconic but didn't see it in your video, Bob (I believe was owner) had a giant metal Alred E. Newman outside the malls entrance. There was a collection of metal art stuff. The Alfred E. Newman was great. I live now in Lansing, have past 22 years. I feel safer in Lansing than I do in Detroit, Flint and even Saginaw where majority of friends and family still live, for what it's worth. Detroit is rapidly changing for the better in many places.

You have to remember when you drive through these formerly-glorious industrial rust-belt cities that all that green space between homes used to have homes. As they burned and rotted, when there was money, they'd be bulldozed and removed. Flint has intentionally closed and removed entire neighborhoods through the years. neighbirhoods

This is a really awesome video, I have been travelling virtually through your videos to places I would never have ever seen. I love that on your channel, you show the beauty and the blight of all these locations you visit. I do like to see the blight, there is some beauty, but also tragedy in seeing abandoned places being taken over by nature, but to see it juxtaposed against the beauty of beautiful, old and well cared for houses that I could never ever afford is also amazing. Anyway, keep it up, I am greatly enjoying travelling with you!

I really appreciate how you create your content. Unbiased and fact based.

I grew up in Flint. Wish I had video to show the contrast from the late 70's to today. I had a tear in my eyes watching this. FYI when on Atherton Rd. you drove by the old Fisher Body plant. " home of the sit down strike".

While you were driving down Fenton Rd. You drove under a railroad bridge that had the words “Grand Funk Railroad”. That bridge was used on an Album Cover for a 70s area Rock Band called Grand Funk Railroad. They were a very popular rock band from Flint. The homes there supported the Fischer Body plants. Remember the carriage plants you mentioned in the beginning of your video?

I was born in Flint, Michigan. Back in the 50s and early 60s, it was one if the most desirable places to live in the U.S

At 4:37 you went by Luigi's,one of my family's favorite restaurants. If you continue south on Franklin crossing Longway Blvd to S. Franklin it's a lot better. My uncle has lived there 47 years, most of the houses are kept up. He had a break in maybe 30 years ago and his car stolen,and once had his car stolen from work downtown, got it back both times, but no problems recently. Flint is a tough place,he has another house in Florida but he considers Flint his home.

When the crushing weight of trying to survive in California starts to get to me, I watch these videos to remind myself I need to work harder because I have nothing to go back to. Beyond difficult to view, but somehow validating. The empty lot on the corner of the "blocked off" street is where I went to elementary school. It was called Cody Academy, later Cody Elementary, there was a public library attached to it. My Dad owned a house on Barrie, two streets north. Back then it was a decent working class neighborhood, I walked to school by myself at 6 years old. Dort Mall was a bit abandoned even before Flint's decline. I remember asking my Dad why it was so empty in what would have been 1985ish, walking around while my Mom returned something at the Sears outlet store that was at the one end. I remember it dimly lit with dark wood paneling, maybe 4-5 stores total along a single hallway.

Went to kindergarten through second grade in flint in the late 80s. At that age i was aware that flint was in decline, that things were tense with auto workers, and that things were starting to get dangerous, but it was still pretty normal. We could ride our bikes around, there were businesses like grocery stores and banks open, we had friends and neighbors, etc. but I saw the news and a few telling things happened around us. Yes, kids know whats going on even if theyre like 5.

I attended Cook Elementary in 1970. Thank you for sharing that. I worked on houses in that neighborhood through out my teen years. I witnessed Flints decline of the 70’s and 80’s. I left a few months after I turned 18. No regrets just memories

My family moved in 1960 from Mt.Morris ,6 miles from there.Our dad & uncle's all worked in auto plants. We moved to So Cal . Sun ,no snow 🎉Dad went to work in Auto plant .A great move ❤

I went to Kettering University in the 80s. Back then was called General Motors Institute. It was a fantastic education and the school is thriving now as Kettering.

I was born there in 1958, my Dad employed by GM, moved from Atlanta after he left the Army. My earliest memories were of a vibrant, crowded city, lots of cars and shopping centers and markets. It was really nice then. My Aunt still lives nearby in one of the nicer suburbs still, but it is heartbreaking to see some of the areas you showed. Luckily my Dad decided to move us back to Georgia before the big collapse....

Flint is one of those places that gets more fame/notoriety than it's size would warrant. I've been hearing about it steadily over the decades. I know it mostly through the Michael Moore films and, of course, the water crisis. (I remember Moore saying his films couldn't be viewed in Flint because all of the movie theaters had closed down.) Someday you gotta come on over to New England and make some videos showing off Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Plenty of old and beautiful towns to see here. Some are run down, most are not. Massachusetts has a lot of beauty too. There's a KZfaq channel I like called "Trout and Coffee" and he shows off much of the region.

You have no idea how bad it is in Flint. I had an ex-wife who was bi-polar and cost me two houses and a mobile home....long, long story. She drove us to bankruptcy. I had a rental house on Arlington Avenue which you drive right past at apprx. 4:27 and I had to move back to Flint from Lansing and to live in that house. When I bought it in 1997 it was not a horrible neighborhood. I moved back in 2004 and it had declined considerably. By 2011 it was unreal. There was gunfire virtually all night long. On New Year's Eve 2011 some kids renting a house behind me - just a few feet from my house - started firing automatic weapons around 11 PM and didn't stop until about 2:30 AM. It was unreal - and those kids had a beef with me so I was scared out of my mind. I laid on my dining room floor for a couple of hours....they must have fired thousands of rounds. Sitting on my porch one summer evening about 7 PM a car rolled up, down the street, and opened fire on a house. I was relaxing with a small dog in my lap. They blew a 32-year old guy's head off, paralyzed a 12-year old, and a 16-year old girl got a bullet in the thigh. I had a Flint City Cop tell me that Arlington Ave. needed it's own "gang unit". They burned the house down right next to mine one morning and burned about a half dozen other houses on my block. The house right across from me was rented by a 20-something African American girl and she had three young guys who stayed there - tiny, tiny house - and they would stand on the porch and fire their guns in the air with impunity all hours of the day and night. I went out looking for my dog one day and a drunk guy stuck a 38 almost up my nose and accused me of trying to steal his put bull - I was looking for my 14-year old, blind Cocker Spaniel. Flint is a freaking hell hole. I got out in 2013...divorced, remarried and live 22 miles east of Flint in a nice, quiet town. This is what globalization has done - manufacturing and unions are gone and there's no money. Flint is like a third world country in MOST places. I remember when they burned down Homedale School. Crazy, crazy place.

I grew up in Flint. It was a vibrant, interesting place to live. The kids had all kinds of programs such as the CanUsa games and Mott funded schools. When Flint lost GM is when the city went downhill Other cities should know that they should not be a "one horse town". That spells disaster. You missed the lovely country club and the Circle Dr. area but I understand you can't do it all. I have nothing but good memories of Flint.

The loss of jobs at the Big 3 automakers wasn't due to outsourcing, at that time, it was due to loss of business to foreign competitors (especially Japan). The OPEC oil embargo that caused gasoline shortages and price spikes drove demand towards smaller, lighter, and more fuel efficient vehicles. In later years, outsourcing played a larger role in the decline of the auto industry and subsequent jobs. The cumulative effects of the above rippled through the entire Rust Belt and lead to economic and population decline; Flint, MI is a textbook example of this.

Hurley Medical Center in Flint is worth noting. Amazing work tracking down the problem with lead leaching out of old water distribution. It's good they sounded the bell when they did. Our response as a nation is embarassing.

I grew up in Flint in the 50s and early 60s. I went to Pierson Elementary from kindergarten thru 6th grade and then attended Bryant Jr. High in the 7th and 8th grades. We moved before my 9th grade year. I have fond memories of Flint and remember it being a nice city. I’m really sad to see the condition it is in today. 😢

In the 19th century, Detroit also produced Calistoga wagons. Detroit made wagons were a fixture along the Oregon Trail with the great migration. The primary manufacturer of those wagons became Studebaker. In the 1860s, Detroit also became the US's primary manufacturer of gas stoves. When you combine wagons, gas stoves and sheet metal, the automobile becomes obvious.

I was born and raised in Jackson, about 35 miles south from Lansing, 78 years ago. It was a great place to be raised back in the 40s and 50s. Miss it a lot since I retired to the Philippines. Hate hot weather. Love your videos though. Flint wasn't a desirable place to live even back when I was a kid in the 50s. Thanks for including Michigan in your trip.

Great video, just looking at all those potholes my vehicle went out of alignment. Ouch the crime is horrible! Keep your head on a swivel... safe travels. Cheers!

This was a very interesting video. Some beautiful neighbourhoods, but lots sadly not. The downtown area looked quite nice, and as always, I love to see a gorgeous old theatre being looked after, and open !! I love seeing the occasional cat, too !! Thank you so much, Joe and Nic, very much appreciated as always.😊💚

Machine Shop is a great venue. I've been there many times. L.A. Guns, Adelitas Way, New Years Day, John Waite, & many other bands.

I was born in Flint Michigan and I lived there from 1958 to 1976 and it was a beautiful town back then, the areas you are showing were never like that when I lived there. You passed the Chevrolet dealership where my dad bought all of our cars on Dort highway.

Poor Flint sure has had their problems. I hate seeing cities falling apart. OMG I can't believe what's left of the school. So sad.

I lived in Grand Blanc and worked for DuPont in Flint across the street from Buick #1 from June 1979 until January 1981. It was a busy bustling place back then. Now its all gone.

I was a 7 generation Flintstone. My ggggreat grandfather was the first veterinarian in the area. He was a Russell which he farmed in area now known as Russellville. I still have an aunt and uncle who lived there who are in their eighties. They live in the house my grandfather and my uncle and his siblings were all born in. They will never leave. I left the area in 1984 and headed out west. I did not return to the area until 2016 and I loved it. I didn't realize how much I had missed my hometown. I still have many friends whom I went to school with and grew up with who have been there all these years.

I like the part where you take us into all the neighborhoods.Thats always been my favorite part.

Thanks for this one boss... I remember asking in a previous video to do Flint. This is where I grew up and I was shot before I even made it to 18.

Hey Joe! I have to give you kudos on how well you produce these videos. Very informative and great editing. Good job!

Wouldn’t have guessed New Mexico on the top 10 list… that being said, Flint looks like it was once a great place. Unfortunately like many big Midwest boom cities the higher ups turned their back on their communities and focused on growing their pockets. There are still good people with great intentions, but seeing cities crumble is a crazy thing to witness. Thanks for sharing, as always safe travels from a fellow midwesterner

Love your videos. Can’t get enough of your page truly. It is unlikely I will ever get to see some of these locations for myself so I love watching your adventures especially with the knowledgeable commentary and statistics. I love demographics too and always thought I was so weird for looking up random cities and crime rates and history, but it appears I have found my people! Yay. Side note: the audio on this vid is not great, I had to turn it up a lot and then when the ads came on my tv I almost had a heart attack lol. Keep up the amazing content! God bless 🫶🏼

I was born in Flint in 1956 and lived there until 2004 when we moved to Northern MI. Had you continued another 2 blocks west on Bennett, you would have passed the remains of the home I was raised in. Sad what has become of the city, but I still love my hometown.

Born and raised in Flint, it’s so sad to see my hometown in dispare. I stopped going home because it’s so heartbreaking to see a city that was so beautiful, was flourishing, had community pride. Most of my family has moved away, or passed on. I still have some family there, and a few friends who remain. I moved away in late 2005, it was still in pretty good shape. 5-10 years later it looked as though someone dropped a bomb! 😞 I often weep for my hometown…and am angered that such a beautiful place is in ruins.

Love the Machine Shop! Flint is pretty cool to me. I used to hang out in Burton all the time & go into Flint. Good parties back in the day.

Cool video. Locally we don't call it "the State Streets Area", we call it "the East Side".

The house on lincoln is listed for 52k. 1200 sqft. 2 bed 1 bath. Nice looking home inside and out

Brings back memories. I grew up in a small-town west of flint called Durand. The only reason it's there is because 2 rail lines cross there. One of which is Grand Trunk, which Grand Funk RR was named after. At about 21 minutes you can see graffiti on the RR trestle.

My Mother lived in Flint on the East side and my Grandmother in Saginaw on the North. I am old enough to remember when the downtown areas were beautiful. Shopping galore and entertainment. So, so sad.

I was born at Hurley hospital and raised in Beecher. It was awesome growing up there. I haven't been back for a long time so thanks for the ride thru. Nice job.

Greatest thing about Flint was the Flint Tropics. Semi-Pro was a great movie!!!

Not sure if anyone else mentioned this, but the water crisis wasn't the city. The State assigned an emergency manager to the city due to the difficult financial situation. At that time we were on the Detroit (or Port Huron?) water system. He decided that was too expensive and made the city switch to the Flint River. Once on the system, they did not properly treat the water (too much chlorine I believe, or not including an additive that would prevent corrosion within the pipes). As a result, the protective layer within the pipes, was eaten away and exposed the lead pipes directly to the water. State officials have been held largely at fault and maybe a city official or too. All said, yes, Flint has issues and probably always will. But if you have a good family life and don't mess with drugs, for the most part, you are safe. It's not like there are shoot outs in the streets every day. As others have said, there are plenty of great areas to be enjoyed. We certainly aren't a tourist destination, but, some of us are content here. The biggest issue, as with any city, is the lack of ready access to mental health services and viable steady employment. Just my thoughts as a lifelong resident of the Flint area (65 years) except for 3 years in East Lansing.

As always, great video

Seeing what happened here disturbs me in the same way I am disturbed about what happened to Detroit. Perhaps if the executives of General Motors had committed themselves to their operations in Flint and kept their huge base of employees here Flint would be thriving today. Instead they gave away the store to foreign competition, from which they have never recovered.

I heard an interview recently with a guy who grew up in Flint back in the 70's and he claimed Flint had the highest murder rate on a per capita basis in the entire country for many years, back in the day!

Once again a really enjoyable video amazing the contrast between the various districts of Flint looking in from the UK

I’m from Missouri and a few years ago I bought an antique sofa on eBay! When I told my husband we needed to go to Flint the next weekend to pick it up he was not HAPPY! Fortunately, it was located in a very nice home on the outskirts and we didn’t have to go into the bad neighborhoods of Flint.

Thank you for sharing and you have a great day and safe travels

Listed at $52K Renovated inside but outside is looking tired. Front veranda area appears to have foundation issues and is pulling front of the house downward, with noticeable kink in the roof. Cheap enough to fix up.

love these trips of yours even though Nic isn't there for some of it. Saving us a lot of gas $$$. Thanks mate

I went to Cook Elementary in the 1960s. I lived only a couple blocks from there. It was a very safe neighborhood. We had teachers, college professors a bank manager and 2 doctors in the neighborhood. You could go anywhere and be safe. We played outside until the street lights came on. Some of us walked downtown one Saturday when I was 11. The neighbors kept an eye on you so you stayed out of trouble. How sad to see Cook abandoned and the area a mess. Such nice homes back in the day. Things changed when GM started pulling out.

This is decent trip around Flint to give you an idea of the decay of what was once a very wealthy industrial city. Young people are constantly complaining they can not afford a home and will never own one. This is only because they refuse to move to the rust belt. There are cheap small houses in Michigan and surrounding states, but chose wisely what street you live on and what school district you are in if you have kids. I have been down nearly all these streets you were on and never have I feared for my life or rarely been threatened. I have visited way worse apartment blocks recently that are notorious for murder scenes and literally have banners draped on the sides of the apartments with a message to call the police and the phone number. Maybe I am used to Flint, but Gary Indiana frightened me. Gary struck me as the perfect place for a serial killer to live, and in fact at that time there was one roaming the streets. I once met a guy collecting scrap metal off the curb in Flint and he showed me his back pocket revolver. So, I asked if he had problems with people while he was collecting junk, and he said "No, it's for the dogs." Many people in Flint have pitbulls and I instantly understood. And the comments below about the Northwest side being rough and Dort Hwy being more tame now are true, but seedy Dort Hwy to me is the perfect example of Flint scenery and life. In 2000 Beecher had the youngest kindergarten school shooter murder at age 6, and on that stretch of Davison road you were on, just a few years ago (2020), a guy killed his dad and chopped him up with a power saw and threw his body parts in a grow shop dumpster...Bad things happen here for sure. Listening to the police scanner was wild before they encrypted it....

Thanks for the video! In around 2010, there was a rash of arson fires that took out a lot of buildings, and there are still a lot of arsons now. Sad to see for someone who was born and raised here, and still lives here. I remember when Flint was thriving, but there are still a lot of good things going on here. I also have several videos driving around town, but haven't made one in several years.

Well done, I'm glad I found this channel.

I started following your channel about 4 months ago. Thank you for all the videos and states you have shown !

1129 Lincoln ave home was listed at $59,000. Kind of cute, very small kitchen. 2 brd, 1 bath, 720 soft. Nice size lot, 3920 sqft

Good vid! I eas born & raised in Flint, but my parents, grands, lits if relatives moved there from southern states, cities...Flint eas beautiful, thriving, busyling until GM sold out & moved out keaving Flint somewhat desolate. Neighborhoods were beautiful & very friendly then! Its sll about $ now & not the city or its people...Lots of apartments are going up, some new businesses. Hurley Medical Center is very integral & a great hospital thats staffed greatly! Around the Court street area around Mott Community College is a beautiful are of homes as is around Miller Rd...Those are where larger stately homes are too! Flint is full of rivh history & is coming back slowly...I still love my #Hometown ❤

Plenty of the nouveau poor around I see. Great videos. Thank you for getting this out. Most people do not understand that things are this bad. God speed.

Very interesting. And sad. Everyone comments on safe neighborhoods growing up. I don’t think most neighborhoods are as safe as when we grew up. Times change. Life. Thanks for sharing. So informative, as always .

Gotta love The Machine Shop. Legendary.

That was neat. I lived in Flint for about 10 yrs in late 70's to early 80's. It was a trip down memory lane for me.

Oh man what a City. The Streets West of 475 and East of 75 are the worst. The state streets are hellholes also. Dakota on the east side. I had to work there in the 2000s.

🎵Machine Shop! 🎶 Is one of the best venues in the United States.

I am so glad that I left there. I was born and raised in Flint. you even drove by my old childhood home at 2:23. I got to see the city flourish and then immediately perish due greed and poor managing. Even though I miss a few things I'll never go back there

Trees live and so do the people, God bless... Beautiful place and will have people, Again...

Escanaba was interesting my niece has lived their her whole adult life. I’ve never visited there. It was nice to see the area she lives in and works in. She raised two sons up there. She is a very hard worker ones her own home there. She move her mother there almost six years ago . She no longer could live a lone. 😊

The house on sale at Lincoln avenue ----> 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1200 sq ft living area, built in 1927, lot size 3900 sq ft. All that for $52000!!!!

Another great video the variety of the architecture on the homes were awesome but also sad…. Some of these homes were as cheap as $5000 wow thanks again God bless and safe travels

Beautiful docu again, thanks.

I lived in Flint back in the day, right where you were at, and it has declined over the years, Mott collage was founded by Mr. Mott, who's grandson lived out in Holly, my hometown, I worked for him in my teenage years on his farm, the Back to the Bricks is a yearly cruise and car show, and back in the 70s things were thrown in the Flint River, from stolen items to dead bodies, the crime was still here from then, several of the schools are closed, burned, or just left to rot

Lansing native here. Been enjoying your tours, and interested to see how you capture the city. Plenty of interesting things to see!

Good morning Joe I enjoy watching your videos. It is so educational. I live in Michigan and I’ve never been to the town of Flint. I choose not to.😊

Nick, I grew up in Chicago, about 7 blocks away from Wrigley Field ... the area is known as Wrigleyville. When I was a kid, you could walk everywhere, and feel perfectly safe. By the time we moved out of the city, the murder rate in our area had skyrocketed. The area still looks half-way decent, but is starting to decay. The population has changed, too. In your travels, have you discovered a medium to large city which you consider to be safe? Your video on South Dakota is looking better, all the time!

I enjoy watching your videos, im not from the states so its been a real eye opener, all those small towns that are just left, the poverty is so sad to watch, i am amazed at the beautiful old buildings ,theyre gorgeous

Funny how entire midwest looks exactly the same. Few months ago I drove 400 miles from Wisconsin to Ohio and I felt I never left my neighborhood.

Paradise Express is one of the oldest business at the Dort Mall. They've been in business for over 40 years now. The mall is also the oldest Mall in the city. It should be preserved for goodness sake.

Well,.....thankfully Flint gave us Grand Funk Railroad,.....so at least it has some redeeming value.

@23:27: interesting how the concrete balustrades seem to be travelling with you and maybe rotating - shows how precise the construction/spacing was.

thanks for showing us flint. i can cross it of my bucket list.

Don’t drive there in a non-GM vehicle was the norm up to today. They would challenge you in a debate first, then go violent and blame you for their lack of jobs.

I absolutely love your videos! Very entertaining. Been watching for quite sometime and finally subscribed. Please keep them coming and I ride along with you also😂